Is your mastodon instance federated yet? He pretty much on his own lobbied the respective admins to federate his instance with hexbear. If not then that would be my best guess.
@pooh@timconspicuous you need to connect to more instances over there. Yes you will find more than a few state department addled libs but that’s just more fodder for the dunk tank. I can tell you for damned sure there are plenty of more ideologically friendly, actually left people of various stripes on other Mastodon instances too.
The only asterisk I would add to this is that there are certain limits to interoperability (sorry about the @s for example I need to remember to manually delete them) so it requires patience and willingness to deal with that. Also for example I can’t title posts, am subject to my instance’s character limit, and can’t see your emojis or images without going offsite. But as a rather ML leaning, Chapo enjoying former member of DSA and the Fraternal Order of Saint Bernard I am happy to say hi here
But also somewhat tempted to make an alt and not have to deal with the annoyances. My laziness and lack of desire for a billion accounts has thusfar stopped me
But only having recently discovered this place I find it seems full of people on precisely precisely the same nightmare journey I’m on and that’s neat. I can’t be the only one who would like to connect
Is your mastodon instance federated yet? He pretty much on his own lobbied the respective admins to federate his instance with hexbear. If not then that would be my best guess.
That’s probably it.
@pooh @timconspicuous you need to connect to more instances over there. Yes you will find more than a few state department addled libs but that’s just more fodder for the dunk tank. I can tell you for damned sure there are plenty of more ideologically friendly, actually left people of various stripes on other Mastodon instances too.
The only asterisk I would add to this is that there are certain limits to interoperability (sorry about the @s for example I need to remember to manually delete them) so it requires patience and willingness to deal with that. Also for example I can’t title posts, am subject to my instance’s character limit, and can’t see your emojis or images without going offsite. But as a rather ML leaning, Chapo enjoying former member of DSA and the Fraternal Order of Saint Bernard I am happy to say hi here
But also somewhat tempted to make an alt and not have to deal with the annoyances. My laziness and lack of desire for a billion accounts has thusfar stopped me
But only having recently discovered this place I find it seems full of people on precisely precisely the same nightmare journey I’m on and that’s neat. I can’t be the only one who would like to connect